Chapter 8
1 Now in the things which we are saying , the main point is this : we have such a high priest, who sat down on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens ,
2 a servant of the sanctuary and of the true tabernacle which the Lord pitched , not man .
3 For every high priest is appointed to offer both gifts and sacrifices . Therefore it is necessary that this high priest also have something to offer .
4 For if he were on earth , he would not be a priest at all , seeing there are priests who offer the gifts according to the law ,
5 who serve a copy and shadow of the heavenly things , even as Moses was warned by God when he was about to make the tabernacle , for he said , " See , you shall make everything according to the pattern that was shown to you on the mountain ."
6 But now he has obtained a more excellent ministry , by as much as he is also the mediator of a better covenant , which on better promises has been given as law .
7 For if that first covenant had been faultless, then no place would have been sought for a second .
8 For finding fault with them , he said , " Behold , the days are coming ", says the Lord , " that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah ;
9 not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; for they didn’ t continue in my covenant , and I disregarded them ," says the Lord .
10 " For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days ," says the Lord : " I will put my laws into their mind ; I will also write them on their heart . I will be their God , and they will be my people .
11 They will not teach every man his fellow citizen and every man his brother, saying , ‘ Know the Lord ,’ for all will know me , from their least to their greatest .
12 For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness. I will remember their sins and lawless deeds no more ."
13 In that he says , " A new covenant", he has made the first obsolete . But that which is becoming obsolete and grows aged is near to vanishing away.